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Originally Posted by onewhippedpuppy
I used to have a 996TT, I know exactly how Porsche can make a turbo engine seamless. I have no doubt that the 718 will be a great driving car, I just doubt it will sound as good doing it. To me that's a big deal, but everybody has their own priorities. Not that Porsche cares about me anyway, I don't think I've owned a Porsche that was newer than 5 years old at the time of my ownership.
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Yeah, I think you nailed it here: Porsche has no intention of making the 718 cars NOT great, but they have been struggling for nearly 10 years now with the problem of "how do we make the Cayman great while still making sure that the 911 is special?" At first, it was by limiting the Cayman's power, but those HP totals crept up and even Porsche couldn't resist the urge to build the GT4.
I bet they had a meeting and said something like "okay, we pretty much HAVE to keep putting big engines in the Cayman S and Boxster S; how do we ensure that those customers will still kinda feel 'less than' those who bought a 911? What makes the 911 truly special?"
Well, what differentiated the 911 from the 928 and 944 Turbo back in the late 80s, when both of the front-engined cars were sorta kicking ass in car magazine group tests?
That sweet, sweet flat six engine.
Again, no doubt that the 718s will be fantastic cars. Alls I'm sayin is that the engine note is nowhere near as wonderful as the flat-six. It's not that it pops and burbles -- that's cool, and my Cayman S does that on overrun as well. That's not the issue -- the issue is that my Cayman S screams like a flat-six should and THEN pops and burbles on overrun; it doesn't fart a little bit and then pop and burble a la the car in the video.